Lucy,We put Sally on the plane this morning back to ATL and soon departing for London! Super exciting, but miss her already. What an adventure for your sister and Taylor!
Sally and I have been listening to an ‘oldish’ Tim Ferris Podcast: Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds (#39). I have replayed this one several times over the past week. So much good material and I will most certainly feature Maria soon on a WPW. See Maria’s extensive body of work on brainpickings.org – where she describes herself in this manner:
I am a reader and writer, and I write about what I read here on Brain Pickings — my one-woman labor of love exploring what it means to live a decent, substantive, rewarding life. Founded in 2006 as a weekly email to seven friends, eventually brought online and now included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive, it is a record of my own becoming as a person — intellectually, creatively, spiritually, poetically — drawn from my extended marginalia on the search for meaning across literature, science, art, philosophy, and the various other tentacles of human thought and feeling.
For Stay Whole Tuesday, I’m going with this from her sit down with Tim back in 2007:
Tim: When someone asks you, what do you do? How do you answer that?
Maria: Well, I’ve answered it differently over the years in part because, I think, inhabiting our own identity is a perpetual process. Right now, I would say, I read and I write, in that order. And in between, I do some thinking. And I think about, how to live a meaningful life, basically.
I love that process, Lucy!
Read, write, and in between, do some thinking,
Dad
P.S. Ties in nicely with this week’s Make it a Great Monday on ‘Thinking Matters’.
